Gordon Dunlop (1883 - 1915)

Ancestors

Biography

Gordon Dunlop was born on 17 January 1883 in Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand, son of Andrew Dunlop (1840–1900) and Mary Taylor (1849–1887).^[1]

His siblings were:

1. Andrietta Lilian Dunlop (4 December 1870 – 21 March 1890)
2. Mary Taylor Dunlop (30 March 1871 – 16 January 1939)
3. Alexander Hornsburgh Dunlop (1 February 1873 – 29 September 1893)
4. Robert Taylor Dunlop (4 February 1875 – 3 May 1919)
5. Alan Douglas Dunlop (26 March 1877 – 7 April 1929)
6. Huntley Dunlop (25 September 1879 – 28 February 1962)
7. Andrew Dunlop (1881 – 4 September 1954)
8. Agnes Jessie McNab Dunlop (25 March 1885 – 4 December 1962)
   

   Gordon Dunlop is an Anzac who served in World War One.

Gordon enlisted in August 1914 and served in the 8th Southland regiment, Otago Infantry Battalion leaving for Egypt in October 1914. He took part in the repluse of the Turks from the Suez Canal in February 1915. He landed at Anzac cove on the 25th April and was wounded 7days later requiring recuperation in England. He returned to the Egypt base of the New Zealand contingent before being killed in action near Gabe Tepe on the 21st of August.

He had voluntered to fill up the water bottles of his fellow soldiers and was shot in the head. He died on the way down to the beach and was buried on the side of the track in an unmarked grave. ^[2]. He is memorilised in Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Çanakkale, Turkey^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24V-TJPD : 27 November 2017), Gordon Dunlop, 1883; citing Birth, New Zealand, registration number 1883/5183, Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.
2. ↑ New Zealand Births, Deaths and Marriages - Online Registration: 1918/40306; Name: Gordon Dunlop; Age at Death: 32Y; accessed 5 May 2023
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56477241/gordon-dunlop: accessed 05 May 2023), memorial page for Private Gordon Dunlop (17 Jan 1883–21 Aug 1915), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56477241, citing Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Çanakkale, Turkey; Maintained by Clancy (contributor 48290237).

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 12 July 2022, 04:33), entry for Gordon Dunlop (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LR4B-9GL ); contributed by various users.
• [https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19150918.2.19 FOR THE EMPIRE’S CAUSE.

SOUTHLAND TIMES, ISSUE 17530, 18 SEPTEMBER 1915, PAGE 5]

• [https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19150918.2.26 AN OLD TIME MEMORY

SOUTHLAND TIMES, ISSUE 17530, 18 SEPTEMBER 1915, PAGE 5]

• [https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SOCR19150918.2.16 THE WAR

SOUTHERN CROSS, VOLUME 23, ISSUE 24, 18 SEPTEMBER 1915, PAGE 7]

• De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1919